Despite director Chad Stahelski singing Mantzoukas before‘ praises in interviews and claims that he “adds a lot to the movie and the world expansion,” add that “he’s a great guy” the Tick Tock Man is‘t in the new movie, which is a huge letdown. Perhaps the filmmakers should have gone with Mantzoukas‘ idea for John Wick Chapter 4, subtitled Wick and the tick.
As Mantzoukas told Conan O’Brien in 2019 he provided a film that mainly contained “Me and Keanu Reeves start cracking jokes.” What kind of hijinks? At one point, the mismatched couple would go on a double date “not‘it’s not going well.” Oh, and since John Wick has a dog, the Tick Tock Man would get a parrot. And then, finally, the Tick Tock Man kills John Wick for some reason. Then the next movie would be John Wick Chapter 5: The Tick Tock Man Chronicles.
For some stupid, cowardly reason, Hollywood did‘t bite, and we are cinematically worse off as a result.
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